Once again disco music is thumping again. I always seem to write during the Tea Dance next door. This is a short blog post because I need to get back to reading. Yes, I’m reading, all day. It’s bliss. I have no other commitments, save a noon-time court time with friends. Vacation is a really new concept to me, so unbroken time is a revelation to me.<\/p>\n
I have been reading adult books. I feel like I’m sneaking them. I should be reading kids’ books, but I am out of touch with the adult book world and I miss it. There have been some great galleys; the new Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood<\/em>, harkens back to The Handmaid’s Tale<\/em>. Very good, long in a great way, and a really good read. I finished that yesterday and now I’m sinking my teeth into Her Fearful Symmetry<\/em>, Audrey Niefenegger’s book coming out in September. I’m only eighty pages in, and loving it.<\/p>\n Next on my list is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>. I want to finish this in time for next week’s release of the sequel, The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/em>. I think it’s really clever of me to read the book now so there is absolutely no waiting for the next one — this way I’m avoiding the agony of waiting a year for the next hot book.<\/p>\n So, go read. Find some time, be it raining or sunny, and give yourself a "well day." Instead of calling in sick, call in well and go read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again disco music is thumping again. I always seem to write during the Tea Dance next door. This is a short blog post because I need to get back to reading. Yes, I’m reading, all day. It’s bliss. I have no other commitments, save a noon-time court time with friends. Vacation is a really new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}